The five men are accused of luring a 23-year-old woman and her boyfriend onto a fake passenger bus on December 16, beating and robbing both of them, then sexually abusing the woman for several hours before leaving them both for dead. The woman died two weeks later from internal injuries. Though her identity has not been released, there have been calls in recent days to pass new laws protecting woman from abuse and to name the law after her. No date has been set for the trial, but the nation is setting up a series of "fast track" courts to try and clear a massive backlog of sexual assault cases that remain untried in a notoriously slow legal system.

News reports are focusing on the Germanwings pilot's possible depression, following a familiar script in the wake of mass killings. But the evidence shows violence is extremely rare among the mentally ill.